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1. duxup+1h[view] [source] 2020-06-15 16:36:57
>>Xordev+(OP)
Is GitHub a hug part of what ICE ... does?

Personally I wouldn't want to work for a company actually detaining people, but call me terrible but I'm not sure I'd feel the same about letting them pay to host some code...

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2. e12e+SL[view] [source] 2020-06-15 18:35:36
>>duxup+1h
Well, there's the people putting people in camps, the people tattooing numbers on those folks' arms, and the people developing the software and hardware to keep track of those people.

Now this isn't quite the IBM nazi connection - but the government snatching up people, then paying private corporations to intern them, in turn apparently using them for forced labour... Is pretty bad.

I'd be surprised if software isn't essential to keeping the machine going - and I'd not hesitated to call taking money for tooling "being a collaborator".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-ice-d...

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